The Sun. — London, England, 1810-02-05 00:00:00

;hip his Sea, OUT ne- this x ty rico rorn el*y IC~- the the naS. ; a►:d ron, get- Wed vere t 0 N, itely tz of been as• re the just he- pac v,ith Pro" !ket, ings Eli- Mr, ton; bon. and last eS.e. ieuie rood• large wno. the oard, i E t+l. ~aster a va , Is,le zes), y th e who ming lorD- over- ten iered very with- ►me, as to Wand aken ured way, s left 86, nell, Do- iiage tier with ;nlch [. ll sOtters'on board; and threNt er E t I , .ntri En, vi7l Jiiu, Bull; an d Cambrian, under convoy Majetity's ship .Niohe, Captain LORING part company on the 9t1.1 January. . • - Arrived the . .bai quo T 111;:) &Whets, CIT A N TLE fro; Noce Eclwaid's: Js%ind;.witil masts for 'his port ; the brig ~-/!:11, Jon '6l NI'DoNALD, master, from Tarragon l and 5.1 ,- .Je, with wine for this port; his INlFjesry's ship Daphne, fromacruize ; hi 4 Ma., it'sly!s brks jcieon„ Ore,ies, and Crucus, from se- Plrate crutzr.‘s ; the, latter 'ii ,under quarantine, for. Lavina with Spanish vessel • . M had been captured by a P7 c 0, 7 1., and sent ; Attack gun-brig, Lieutenant SwArN, tram to ; his rilajesiy's'ship Seipion, "1 , 1 , guns, .Tatar-Adr i niral STOPFORD, from Basque DcadF, ; site has a riu,ant.ity of prize goods on board, taken out of Frencli,Vc'ssels, destroyed at sea . by the squadron in Quiberon Bay ; the Petere/, ROwn, irern SOuthampton ; the Frintri!i, TREGARTHEN and HiTe, • PILLAR,' front Malta ; and Ecril St. Vincent, Cocti., from Padstow. • FEB. Encounter gut 1-brig, Lieutenant TALBOT, takes convoy the Eastward., Arrived his Majesty's ship. Airitrible, Capt. Lord Gp.ortoe.STuArtT, from the Baltirc : the American barque, Edward, MoottE ,EMERY, Master, from Newbury Port, (North America), last from the.Me !literranean, laden with barilla, i aisins, and •a few' bales of silk, bound to London, put in here by ottirary winds and lead weather a Spanish 'brig, from Gijon, with nuts, bound 10 London; the illorrislciiivz hired arared brig, with a convoy front CALEB WiIITEFOORD; ESQ. We are very. sorry to inform the Public that this Oentleinan died yesterday Morning, - at his house in Argyle -street. He Wraslvell known in the first polite arid literary .circles,..zind•poSsessed great talentS and iiiforrnation. He liad . a turn for wit and humour, and a Store of anecdotes, which tendeied his Society Yelp entertaining. He was particuiiirly successful ill classical allusions, and was esteernel a very good richcla,. He w;ts _honourable and ihieral in all his w.is a firm sin cerity in .Lis thann,-; 1p in li i.cLa ioll3, which strot igly,indicated disiinuLition and disguii ie. He was I :era 1 e <illa - zealous in his triendtihips, and in indeavnurs to promote the success. of dawning titlfus. His ta•ae f - ,A- the arts was a * predominant feature in hii character, and is manii7est in a %rely 1-drg,l and valuably Colle6lion of picluit,i, which he has left to his law ily. There are perbi )s.More traits. by sit' 40SIIYA REYNOLD; in Lit is colletnon tliati can be found in any other. Mr. WnrrEpoortn was the author of many works of approved merit, though lie , never put name to any of his produ:lions, whith were chiefly con tled-to The 'Journals of the day; and he was for- Merly very, liberal in hiS literary cow rib‘a.!ions to the 'Public Advertiser, of which he was th,tll,olie of the PrOprietori. , Mr'.WHlTEroottn struck out a vet v species of tu.t.noUrF" which was knoWn.by the nut»e of Cross lteadings, and when he . first communing ted it to the lie gave th.a.apt signature of Pap9rius Cursor. t is hardly necessary to , observe, that ti :e design of this whimsical shetne was to read alofig the lines of -the several columns of a newspaper int o;one ano ther, instead of to the end of each, by wt hick means many odd and diverting coincidpnces were often produced; but those struck out by hi% fancy, on Proposing the sell - eine - , were far superior, in point of Wit and humour,, to any thing that havy since ap peared of the'same nature. Another very diverting Essay on_ the • Err Ors of the Press, cont ributed to bring Mr. WHITEFOORD'S • name into n,otice, and many excellent effusions of political humour and satire he conveyed to the pablic under tbe title of Ship News. Upon the whole, he was a man of distinguished talents, a zealous friend to his coon . try, a ; loyal subject,, and a very respeatablt_t member of society. ' His friend GOLDSMITH wit ids up his charade? in RETALIATION with the folio wing ap • Propriate lines:— Merry NV IT EFOO au, farewell! for thy sake lag 'Char a Scot may have humour, I had almost sait 1 wit This debt to thy mem'ry I cannot refuse, - " Thou best natur'd man, With the worst humoU r'd Muse." The Leeward Island ;Mails arrived oti .Saturday brou g ht letters from Bat badoes of the 14111 Decem ber, from Martinique of the 16th, and , from An tigua of the 26th. From these we learn, that Ad iniral COCHRAN B had returned to the West Indies frorn Halifax, and was- at Port Royal, artinique, , ahe inch December, making arrangements for the intended expedition against Guadaloupe, but which, it was supposed, would await the arrival Ed the ex..- peeled - reinforcements from England. The force asiembled at Birbadoes, including the troop's from Halifax, was estimated at 8000 men, am! the dit ' relent Islands were expected to Cent6bute 3000 Inoue ; in which case the conquest could ;not be at tended with more difficulty, as the enemy had not more than 800 or lutm regular troops pi evious to the arrival of the to o frigates from liOritmt ; and • with these, and .some newly formed black corps, The,Governor had retired to, the strong fort Flew de la Pays, where he was preparinefor resistance. He stated he had been obliged to disband the rtiilitia, in . cotistqUence of their disaffeelion.. The Sctpire and ..40 - ed; which sailed from Portsmouth• the Bth No vember, arrived at Barbadoes on the 13th Decem ber, in company with the Freya and Frolic, and were on the Ist assisting in the blockade of Guada loupe. -The-Loire and Orpheus frigates were daily expeeted by AdMiral COditRANE. The former sail-. ed from Pot tsmouth the 19t b November, with con voy, having 1800 troops on board, and the Orpheus had charge of a body . of troops from Guernsey.— arrival the ;long-menaced attack win; to be made un Guadaloupe. YeSterday dispatches were received front Lord NVE:.LING:roN, dated.the -12th They were by the Phipps schooner,-in 17 days-:to AMERICAN PAPERS. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—A letter-received in this city:dated New Otlans,, .Nov. 20, says—" The Colledor. of this Port list week robbed the United Sates of about 200;000 dollars, and - Went oil with an English felucca, which, it appears,'. he secretly purchased, and prepared for that villainous purpose. Adive means have been taken to pursue him, but we think. be .will not be found, as the vessel he went in sails remarkably'fast." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. RUPTURE WITH - MIL JACKS ON. DEC. '2 I.—The House went again i❑ Committee of tlie . Whole on the iesolulion from the St-..naie. Mr. EMOTTconcluded'llis speech againsCit. Mr. GHOLSON and Mr. ROsS spoke in favour of ir. And at half-past three, on motion of Mr. UP HAM, the Committee rose, and obained leave to sit again, And the House adjourned. FRIDAY, DEC. 22. The Honse resolved lt4elf into a Committee of the whole, on the resolutions from• the Senate.—Mr . BASSET in the chair. Mr. GOLD spoke at great length and with great strength Of argument against the resolutions. Mr. MArobr opposed the reBolations,• but on dif ferent grounds from those who had gone before him. He did not like to praise the President, when he had done no more than his duty ; and he did not like a declaration of war against Great Britain at this time.—The Committee rose, reported progress .and had leave to sit again. The House then ad , Journed until Tuesday next. " Co!leapt's Office, Norfolk, Dec. 13, 1809. " Six--Observing that Mr. JACKSON, the late Bri tish Minister, had lodged a formal complaint with the GovernMent for an insult offered bythecitizens of Hampton,' to an officer belonging to the frigate 4fri coine, and magnifying this insult into a demand for passport's of safety for himself and family ; I ton *ceived it my duty to irnke immediate application to the Collectur.of Hampton, with a request that he would have the taCts relative to this transaction fully investigated, and certified.—l have this morning re ceived 116 M him the inclosed 'documents, wh:cit I hasten to transmit to you. ".lhave the honour to be, Sir, with very high res peo).your obedient servant, " Jam? CAIN SMITH." The Hon. Robert Smith, Secretary of State at Washington.' SO 1:),A.4m nitonin, ES4. COI-LECTOZI OF TIM ralir OF If A M I. l ro N Hatilptoth izth Dec ISo9 `f . SIR-I received your note of the ti th instant, respecting the cundutt of the British officers from the Africaine frigate while in Hampton. . " I consider it an inctimbent duty, being thus officially called upon, to give such a ❑arrative of faels as way tend to an 'eduircissement of the con dud of one of the British officers, the effeCl:of which has, I presume, given rise to this inquiry,— The day previous to the sailing of the Africaine fri gate from Hampton Roads to AnnapoliS, conveying the late British Minister, a few of that ship's offi cers were on shore at Hampton. " Returning home, I was informed by the Citi 7 zens that during my absence one of the officers had, in a very disrespectful manner, entered my house, and was seen shortly afterwards retiring precipitate ly. The officer being pointed out to me, I accosted him in the presence of the other wEcers, nearly as follows : You have tak4n the liberty, Sir, to offer an unprovoked insult by . :entering my house in a disrespectful manner. What were yoar motives for such conduci ? the rights of the citizens here are held sacred, and no man is suffered to infringe them with impunity. You, Sir, have been permitted with the rest of the officers to walk in our otteets unmo lested. It is strange, considering the political situa tion of the times; that you should be among the first to insult the citizens of Hampton.' " The officer attempted to extenuate the offeqce, by saying that he did not rnean.an insult. I after wards left intwand the other officers in company with several citizens, who were expiessing their in dignation at his conduil. Shortly after the return dare frigate to Hamp ton Roads I received several verbal messages from th 6 same officer, requesting permission to make,nie a personal apology for his recent conduCi. I return ed Mai this answer :—" That the citizens of Hamp ton considered the indignity offered to me as a gene 7 ral insult, and that if he wished to apologise to them also through me, I was willing to hear what he had to say on that subje&. Accordingly this officer was introduced to me at my office, .by the name of JACKSON, and after acknowledging that he did en ter my house, made the apology required ; he then observed that he Was tearful, upon a future investi g.ition of this subject, that he might sustain. much injury, as he had reason to expect a public trial On his returu to Bugland. • - " In order to correct, misreiiresentatioti, I mdst here remark, that during the coteittnanc;.; JACKSON ill Illy 1101 Se, ilt! was not seett by any of my lai - ni!y, except servants. " I am, Sir, - . " respea, your obedient Servant,, . '6 -.lloncaT ELIZ. CITY COUNTY, TO WIT. " I do hereby certify, that ROBERT ARMISTEAD appeared before me, CHARLES JENNINGS, one of the . _ Commonwealth's Justices of the Peace for the sal( County; and made Oath ' to the truth of the within sta:ement. Given under my hand this 12th day of December, 1809. " CHARLES JENNINGS, J. P." Not :long after - a‘ commotion in the town 'Of .. - Hampton, in con seq u ence o f t h e indisctetion of an officer whose tame was JACKSON, belonging to the' ship Africaine, in entering in a very disrespeellnl I anner die private dwelling of Mr. ROBEAt ARM STEAD, a citizen of Hampton, I happened. to be on board ship : Mr. JACKSON, the officer be- , Jute al `to, obsekoed tone, that he ‘vas . de- i sirous of an introduttion to Mr. ARMISTE'AD,(WhOSe private sananary had thuS been violated) for the`pur'- ' pose of expiating.his fault by an apology. . Soon after the aforesaid conversation, Alr. JACKSON, the officer Alluded to ; came on shOre, and, .pursuant to _ . his wish ; I introduced him to Mr. ARMISTEAD, Whose forgiveness in my presence he asked, as well as the forgiveness through him of the citizens of th e town--:after which conference with Mr.. A'RMIS 43AD, the aforesaid officer accompanied me into the i.v country to a Militiamuster, here), after , . regaling himself. with the persons attending the said muster, be expressed the greatest satisladion at the civil and hospitable manner. in 'which be had been —enter tained. ' " RICHARD H. SMITII." " RICHARD H. S,lrrH, Ter.Sanal:y appetrrd fore me, CHARLES JENNI/sics,'a Justice rut the Race for the town of Hampton and cotiniy of : Etiz.lhtti City, and made..oatli to - the with! ccrtifica‘te.— Given under my hand this 11 ih day of Dv.c. i 809. " CIIA I:LEI JENNINGS, A petition .has , been presented to'the Legislature of Georgia, from which the following vt:ryex,raor dinary'passages are extraaed. It will be seen that the Democrats of Geor&a. have outstript eeti, their political brethren in l'entsylvania in the race 'of jacobinisna. " We pray.yotir Honourable Body tp . rn' ake such laws as to dispeosewith aTid totally obliterate the most useless pest, that,eversiisriq:nccd-tite ht.iwait so ciety, to wit, the I awyers, Clio have so success fully learnt the,trade of living, " We your Petitioners, ai Republicus, believiug in the equal also at the Deity ,In the creati,u'did not/ . .contemplate Lawyers-=hav ing made no.distinalibril: in lite fore ition of Man, but left the La\Vyers_as adequa . te to the. pursuit of honest labour as the rest of mankind. • " It his :been said - th S'Amso slew his thou . sands : with the jaw -bone of 4n -ass, but, in oqr opinion, the jaw=bones of Lawyersaissistfd by their tongues, have since devoured their millions , to, One slain by that Of the aSs.- THZ TIIE/ITRE. On Saturday the admirable, play of The City- Madam, written by MASSII4GtRi with onnsions and alterations, suited to the tastes of the present, times, was lip ought forward at the Lyceum, under the title of lliches, ,or ‘he Wife and Brother. The; Play, as originally written, abounds with Vigorous sentitneut, arious and strong marked . charaeler; elegance, and . 'strength of language. There are, however, passages which are calculated to offend the. nicer taste of the age, and these are properly : omitted. The .Public are indeb'ed for the • revival of this excellent Play to Sir JAMES 13.1.1) BURGESS, a-Gentleman of well-known literary and. poetical talents. He has rerfortned his task in a very able manner, having touched the original text with the reverence due to so masterly a .writer as MASSINGER, vile of the great fathers of the Eng lish Drama. The character of a proud, imperious, and extravagant wife is well . pourtrayed in Lady' Frugal, now called Lady Traffic, and, Lite iirliu ence of such, a chataeter in moulding the disposi tions of the daughters is shown with 'equal The author has drawn a monster in Luky, and Sir J. BURGESS has not softened its features. Thispart was very well performed by llfuown. `The - part ofLadj - Traffic was ail , tted to Mrs. EDWIN,. whose only lauit in it (a fault which unhappily will lessen every day) is that she looked too young for it.. The play itself is so tery different, as 'well as so much superior to the dramatic produ&ions of the present day, that the andience\ could hardly be expected to relish its merits at once, and therefore, though it ex cited much app}ause, it was not without partial dis approbation. We doubt not, however, that it will improve on' repetition, and be at length received with the approbation due to the remains of one of the most powerful and eloquent of our Elder llx-r -thatic Writers. Very considerable reinforcements, both, of ca7alry and infantry, are about' to be sent to our army in Portugal. The 13th Light Dragoons is amongSt other regiments under orders for inimedtate embark ationt ; and should the progress. Of the war- in are Peninsula continue, in the opinion Of Mipis/ers, to warrant a prolongrtion of the struggle there, the the brigade of Hussars, consisting of the ith, in‘h, and t&th Regiments, are. to be srnt out early- in the •Spring,, under _the orders of Lord i VASE?. - SOUT'II AMERICA. LA PAZ, JoiY - 16,1800 - . - !;--The inhabitants of this place, suspeding the Governor, Archbishop, and . ' other pe.rsons in authority, of a design to transfer . the Sovereignty of these countries to the Piincess of the Brzizil's,,i*ei,in a mass at half past six o'clock, and if t; bells of the cathedral being rung,.the.whole were assembled in the grand square. Par : ties were detached to secure the military guards and ceutinels, the jail, the palace, and the magazines. All these .operations were effected amidst the general exclainaitotis of " Long' live King Ferdinat:d, our . and otir Country :" . .and without any oihrr casualty . thati 7 the wounding of a serieant, who 'of feted seine resistance, and ttie killing of a who was mistaken by ,the popunce for a The portrait of Ferdinand VII. was stuck up at the entrance of the Town-hall.----The Archbishop en•-•: . deavoured to pacify the tumult ; .but the people 0r,. , dere& him ti. relive to his palace, to save himself from insult. The Cabldo, inconsequence of the repeated demands of thelieople, assembled at one in the morning ; and Don. Gregorio Lanza, and Juan fßautista caiocora, being.elected Deputies ;to-,inti mate the wishes.Of their fellow-citizens, proposed, In their name, that the Archbishop and Governor Intendant shOuld • resign, their - funtticma.; that the Otlicers of the Hacciendu should put into the hands of the Cabildo one of 'th . 'keys'of 'the Casa Real, and • that the Post-inamer; Fi -: anciso . ,PazoT, should •be succeeded by, Pecko Cosco,. and that Don Pedro Mu -6114 shoold prQyisibtaly be'appointed Military Corn •m,mdant in -Ihp . pl ic,: of Ca:imel Miele Fernandez AI!. T these-propositions being acceded t 0,7 .and guafds bejng stationed at the most . itnpOrtant poinis, (pied); dispersed at three in the morn g JULY cli(! European and American ittha bit:nns were ni,embleci by proclamation, at threa o'clock, and in the - presence of the Cabildo and the bast of Ferdinand VII. took an oath to Maintain the of 'heir Sovereign, their religion, and their country.. • JULY 18.---ThiS day -the Cabildo, at the instance !- • of; the p;:pinies o f t h e P eop l e , prohibited any person '; from ,lnating _the city without a passport trom the Conirriandant„ and' Ordered the Governor to be se parated froin the Archbishop, 4e ulhose palace they had hitherto remain d under wards. "lwo h lions of of 500 t*ll ea li, wele enrolled.— ,:f the tut.)4t.:respe,:;taWe Eu ropeans anct JULY, i - day the Cabildo, at the instinte t k:.ljeput les, or d ere d, t h e 'Oflie.crS of,the Hac ci' to produce, all the vouchers in their posses sion of IL:min..-- debts, for the put posed'' their be. ing canceled a h m d comitted to the itaines. Th-ey also retolred that the- Indian, should not pay the alcavala_on bringing intomarket the]r ptuvisi oh s atul.manolaelures, and that the,.s . .iptts otftOlificeo should be'lowered.': It was also determined that a battalion or Indians should be raised, under'the (hie Of NJ - unapt ..srs.of the Natimu,fl . Union. JOY 20.—Tfiti Cabildo, ..-on the proposition the Deputies, admitted as associates eight'perSon ndiulnated , by the people. - TWO thousauci were drawn the Casa heal, to be distributed among the pobrer classes of the populace 3 but the latter, with oh,: voice, 'rejeated the lar , ess, out that the money should be expendal in casting cannon, Or in: paying the troops., Orders were Is . sued for raising a battalion of .:509 stout degrnes ; for increasing the total of our military.establistituent to ttie numner of 10,000 men ; for. i..irtitt;ing the heights 01 the city with 100 . pieces of Canton,' and for casting a , qunnity of flying artili:ry. . JuLY peOple assembled; as usual,' in the grand scii.are, and the DepUties prOpuhe.d to the Cabildo :a new system of Government, with the view of for ever preventing the reurn of that tyranny twit injustice under 'which they ha% e . hithos:-. .to suffered. The consideration of this important suhjed was, however, at the re:quess of the Catilklo, ,OStponed t o r ihe 't. - . p' yo.. , presen JULY 25.-41) the vouch . ers of revenue debts were thisday clelieral up and bUrnt. A number of Ciiciques "anti Iddtaii :Chiefs waited upon the .Cabildo, and assured them, that they are _ready, la defend us with 200,000 warriors of their respective ti . JULY 3o:-eery thing goes on well. A solemn mass and procession took place this day, in honaur of our Lady Del . Catmen, who has been adopted as our pluroiless'. By this evening's post we have the agreeable intelligence• that Chuigsaca has espoused the•Sentirrienti of this citY. . The important fads communicated in the above have led to the material : change in the commercial policy of the Goeintiaent of Buenos. Ayres, an nounced in the following extract of 'a letter t— ; ' " BUENOS AIRES,' SEPT. 27; 1809.-1 tae the lib:-:rty to observe,' that the necessities of this Go , vertu:nein, nut their. good wishes to.w4rds English men or str.mgers, are. about to• compel it to open their ports to foreign cot - muerte. La Paz, the capi tal cf the Audiencia of Los Charias, has deposed its Prli:sident, and exiled the Archbishop, establishing a - provincial Government, at 'the head of which is ~the Royal Audencia. but governed by the popular voice, which is represented by the Cabildo, or City Council. The 'King's money, •comscrquence of the state of affairs, is not perinittk .to' come tQ Buenos Ayres' ; and this, the principal source by which the Government has hitherto been supported, . being completely .done away, the Viceroy na's pro posed to open the ports to free commerce, as the only meaus by which an adequate revenue can he supplied,' to sustain his Government. A majarity of the Cabildo and Consulado approve of the mea sure. All -the partitions and landed interest are us ing every exertion to support the liberal and patriotic plan. The. opponents are such as have large quad: sities of goods on hand, and some wealthy Spaniards, who wish to continue their counettton 'with the mother country, Whatever may be its situation or government. However, the business is soon to be determined, say in 15 01 - 20 day's, and I have seated a doubt but it will , be in fivour of a frac colninetct o with Etigland at least." • • The account of the great Meeting of Rohm Ca tholics iu publin arrwed in town on They have resolved, not to give the Yeto*to. the Crown, - on the nnnitiation of the 13islinp*,-_ And have determined to request some other Peer,_ just, of Lord GItIiNVILLE, to present their P e titi on to thio Hot:se of Lords. \t'-